Realtek Audio Drivers

About Realtek Audio Drivers:
This page discusses Realtek Audio Drivers and how to properly identify and download them. It also explains the importance of keeping your drivers up-to-date and some of the challenges with updating Realtek Audio Drivers. Note: You can automatically download the correct Realtek Audio Drivers by downloading the Driver Update Utility below.

RealTek Audio Drivers

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Realtek) has been manufacturing audio hardware for a long time and their audio hardware is extremely common in today's desktop and laptop computers as their products are successfully tried and true components for delivering quality sound from your computer. Even if your speakers aren't Realtek made, the audio device that is powering them, however is likely to be so. That means Realtek has been writing drivers for audio hardware, equally as long. It doesn't matter where your computer came from or under what brand it was manufactured, there is a good chance you have a Realtek audio device powering your speakers and microphone.

The Realtek audio hardware is the device that is embedded or plugged into your motherboard that processes one audio signal and modifies that signal so that it is produced properly by your speakers. A Realtek audio driver tells the Realtek audio device how to output sound from your speakers. The driver does this for everything from music to VoIP. The Realtek driver can see that you are you trying to play music or make a phone call when your computer starts sending audio signals through the Realtek audio device. It immediately takes that audio signal and converts it into a signal that the speakers can understand better.

We ask our computers to carry out thousands of unique demands every day. From simple tasks to complicated projects, your computer requires the help of several hardware and software components that work together as a whole to deliver the results you want. The hardware in your computer does not know how to work together to produce those results without special software called drivers. Typically, drivers that are associated with audio hardware are referred to as audio drivers. As our demands increase and evolve, our hardware and how it functions must change to meet those demands.

Drivers are improved consistently over time as bugs or general improvements are discovered. You don't have to replace your hardware to get the update, you simply need to update the driver. The manufacturer of the hardware distributes these updates freely in small packages called driver updates. You just need to make sure you're getting the right Realtek driver for the associated Realtek audio device.

Common Realtek Audio Drivers Problems

Realtek audio hardware is not excluded from the errors and common file corruptions that any other hardware device or Windows component is susceptible to from day-to-day. As driver updates are developed, yours soon becomes out-of-date, and as errors occur and files are lost, your audio driver may become missing or corrupted. Sometimes an installation process simply goes wrong or an update is applied incorrectly. Whatever the cause, it's no longer working and it needs to be fixed.

Common Causes of Failure...

The audio driver is out-of-date

The audio driver is missing or corrupt

Update failure

The audio device is damaged

Hopefully, your audio device is not damaged and all that needs to be done is to simply uninstall and remove all components of the old audio driver and replace it with a newer or working audio driver. This process, while not too terribly difficult, can be tedious and time consuming (especially if you have more than one device that is out-of-date).

If you're going to manually find the drivers for your specific system, be sure to take the proper steps to identify the correct audio hardware on your Windows PC. To help with this, we have put together a guide on how to update your Realtek Drivers.

If you want to avoid the hasstle and risk of looking for the correct driver yourself, we recommend using the automatic method described below.

How to Easily Download Realtek Drivers

The easiest and safest way to download the Realtek drivers your system requires is to use an automatic tool to install the correct drivers for your specific hardware. Since finding the correct Realtek drivers manually can be time-consuming and installing an incorrect driver could potentially crash your PC, using software that does all the hard work for you is a much faster and safer option.To ensure you get the right drivers for your Realtek device, we Strongly Recommend using the automated tool, DriverUpdate.

DriverUpdate will automatically determine the official drivers your system needs and download them in the correct order. This guarantees your computer won't encounter errors from incorrect or out-of-date drivers in the future and makes your current driver issues a thing of the past.

The hours spent manually researching, and the inherent risks associated with installing drivers on your computer make using DriverUpdate the best solution. ( Click Here To Download DriverUpdate )

DriverUpdate's purpose is to provide easy, one-click access to all of the latest drivers for your computer. This saves you time and prevents the possibility of installing an incorrect system driver, which could potentially cause a system crash. All drivers offered by DriverUpdate are available free of charge from manufacturer websites. DriverUpdate costs $29.97 for a one-year license, which enables you to download the missing or out of date drivers it finds. An offer for the optional AVG Security Toolbar is included in DriverUpdate's installer.

DriverUpdate uses award-winning cloud technology to conveniently update multiple PC drivers simultaneously and in proper sequence. Drivers may also be available for free directly from manufacturers' Websites. DriverUpdate is $29.97 for a one-year license. An offer for the optional AVG Security Toolbar is included in DriverUpdate's installer. Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP and their associated logos, and the Microsoft Certified Partner logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.